US Communist Party

The US Communist Party was a communist political party in the United States that existed from 1878 to 1936. The party initially had strong support among disenfranchised laborers in the Midwest and the American West, and its members had the ability to form an army of 300,000-odd troops. From the 1880s to the early 1900s, communist agitation was a problem in America, and US Army troops were often called in to put down insurrections and strikes. By the early 1900s, however, more farmers and peasants began to shift towards conservatism as police began to suppress strikes, believing that communism was vehemently opposed to the traditions and histories of civilizations in general and, more importantly, the USA itself. The party lost support in the rural areas, and Communist Party USA seized the support base that the USCP once held, during the 1910s.